SPLASH!!!

My friend, Karen, from The Duck Pond supplies monthly kits ... Cardmakers' Kits or Blooms Kits. Lovely! Check out her site for more information!

Not long ago she sent me one of her kits to sample ... I was so excited! There were papers and buttons and lace and pearls and hat pins and bottle tops and card blanks and envelopes and ... well, here's a picture!!!

Here's a card I made using one of the papers and some pearls ...

And another using much more from the kit ..
I'm sure there'll be more soon!
Watch this space!
Thank you, Karen ... and thanks for stopping by to take a look!!!
Ruth xx

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Last Christmas cards for this year!

These are my last Christmas cards for this Christmas season! Went for traditional colours because I know that the people I made them for like them!

Dug out an old collection of stamps that someone was getting rid of for the image on this second card! Love that old Santa! LOL!

One Card - Two Colours!

Here are two cards using the same design. How different they look in the two different colours!! I am not sure which colourway I prefer ... let me know what you think ...



Wish I could remember where I got that image - but I thought that it would be perfect for mam's friends who go to "chapel" with her.

The Away in a Manger music was part of a download from Printable Heaven.
The sentiment stamp is from Art Impressions and says:

This Christmas
may you see and know anew
how great His endless
love for you!

... and I am loving my swirls again!

I got an order!!!

I have a colleague called Ruth ... she has never worked with anyone with the same name before. I on the other hand went to school with people called Ruth, there was a Ruth at guides and a Ruth at the place I used to work before, so I wasn't surprised to be working with someone else called Ruth again.

Anyway, Ruth asked me to make some special Christmas cards for family and friends. I don't often get asked by anyone outside the family to make cards for them to send, so I was hoping that these would be okay ... they were!!

The first one is for her parents. Ruth asked for a family of snowmen and I used a stamp that I love to use...


The next one is for her brother and she asked for a happy tree ... a lot of my crafty friends find it difficult to make cards for men. So do I!! But this was quite fun!


Now for her friends' kids ... I LOVE SANTA!!!! And I love this image from Dustin Pike!

Ruth's nephew likes a joke, so I thought that Santa getting stuck in the chimney would be just right for Jake!

Thanks for visiting! There's more to come so stop by again soon! xx

Seasonal ATCs

The ATCs I made to swap over at the Charmed forum! Christmassy, with a bit of sparkle!

A few quick Christmas cards

Very quick and easy!
Using papers and trees from a magazine... with a stamped sentiment (Cuddly Buddly) mounted on a scalloped circle (Nestabilities... cut using my Big Shot).
Snowflakes!
Another quickie ... die cut snowflakes and some embossing, again using my Big Shot! I love my Big Shot!!! LOL!
Stamping!
A snowman stamped onto card in black, but highlighted with a white gel pen to look like snow ... more die cuts and embossing!
Tea Bag Folding!
Made some Christmas Trees using tea bag folding techniques and mounted onto cards that have been embossed - one with snowflakes and the others with my trusty Swiss Dots folder!

I hope that there will be more photos to follow because I have some more ideas in my head! So thanks for visiting, and please come back soon!

Ruth x

Happy birthday, Uncle Mike! xx

Happy birthday, Uncle Mike! Hope you have a great day ... wish we saw each other more often!


Image:
Just Inklined coloured with my Prismacolor pencils, with glossy accents added to the glass and bottle.
Sentiment:
One of many from Bluebirdflats blog

All mixed in with a bit of fun with punches and my Big Shot!!

Karen's birthday!

Karen is my oldest niece! One card is from me ... the other is from my parents!



Both stamps were freebies from my favourite magazine - Craft Stamper!!! The second one is stamped on silver ... the same silver as the embossed square!
Love them!